Discipline: Literature – poetry

Naomi Chase

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1979, 1981, 1984, 1992

Naomi Chase is a poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer. She has published five books of poetry: The Judge's Daughter, Listening for Water, Waiting for the Messiah in Somerville, Mass., Gittel: The Would be Messiah, and Anonymous Fox; two chapbooks: Stacked (illustrated by Jon Agee) and The One Blue Thread, a Flume Press Prize Winner; and two non-fiction books: A Child is Being Beaten, Violence Against Children in America and The Underground Revolution: Hippies, Yippies, and Others. Her unpublished novel won the 1996 Hackney Literary Award for fiction.

She has written for the New York Times, The Village Voice, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in Sojourner, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review, and Prairie Schooner, among others. Anonymous Fox, was published by Turning Point Press in October 2009.

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Star

Naomi Chase worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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